No amount of hard work can shield you from failure - and yet we often only hear about the success stories. A honest and authentic look at the emotional experience of failure, and how it affects your ability to stay creative and thrive.

Making a game succeed is tough and unpredictable. No amount of hard work can shield you from failure - and yet we often only hear about the success stories. A two part look at failed Kickstarter campaign for the music sandbox game, Cadence.

In my previous article I discussed the use of cache and some practices that can provide increased performance while also teaching you what cache is. I also stated that cache in a multicore environment is a whole other topic so I've written this article to cover the different considerations that come along with Multicore Programming.

There are a plethora of reasons why games are successful, but what’s for sure is that players want to feel their favorite games are alive. One key to video game success is to be constantly releasing small updates. This alone might be a compelling reason to develop expandable games.

Picture this. You’ve fought hard to release your game, you get many downloads, BUT players get tangled up in level #8 and can’t get past it. According to analytics, they seemed to enjoy the game so far, but now they log in at lower rates. What's going on?

This is the second lesson in a set of tutorials that demonstrate how to build a complete first-person shooter game, from start to finish. In this lesson we will use Visual Studios C++ along with Leadwerks 3 to setup our code base.

App Annie has provided useful data that gives insights into the breakdown of revenues between platforms and countries. After reading this article you'll have an idea of the countries you want to localize your game for

This article covers a method that allows you to render millions of unique objects with Direct3D11 or OpenGL 4+ with minimal CPU overhead. Rendering objects this way is very close to DX12/Mantle/Vulkan performance.